[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#983251: passwd is missing dependencies

[Tim Woodall]

On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Tim Woodall wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
>
>> * Tim Woodall <debianbugs at woodall.me.uk> [210221 15:28]:
>>> I am unsure how debootstrap avoids the first problem - It could just be
>>> down to luck that debootstrap configures base-passwd before passwd. grep
>>> is Priority: required and Essential: yes so it could be argued that it
>>> should be unpacked before attempting to configure passwd and so this
>>> dependency is not required.
>> 
>> That is exactly the case. Both grep and base-passwd are Essential:
>> yes, so they _must_ function already (even when not configured yet).
>> 
>> Adding them to Depends: could be argued to be a bug.
>> 
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> As per my other message I think there is a bug, but it's not in this
> package. However if there is a bug it's possibly in the wording of the
> debian policy on essential packages which is somewhat vague about
> bootstraping a virgin system.
>
> I've now inspected debootstrap and it handles this case by having an
> explicit ordering on how it configures the first seven packages
> independent of any explicit or implicit dependencies.
>
> So go ahead and close this bug rather than reassign it to base-passwd.
> I've taken the discussion to debian-devel.
>

Actually it should be consolidated into 924401 as that's exactly the
same bug.

Regards,

Tim.